Thanks for the replies guys much appreciated. A few comments/clarifications: I've decided to keep my AV receiver in the sound chain, and went with a Schiit Modi Multibit DAC which I'll be using to connect from my PC to the Modi to the receiver(via RCAs). I should have clarified......I...

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Hi guys. Been a long time since I been on this forum :) I've owned a pair of Beyer Dynamics DT880's for about 8 years now, and I still love 'em. I was always under the assumption that pairing(no pun intended) a pair of headphones with an Home Theater receiver was among the best solutions to...

Hi guys. Anything changed in the last 12 years? :p   You know what I would like to see? I would like to see someone mod the D-555 so that it allows it to play tracks from a Micro-SD card, rather than a CD. Or perhaps a mod that allows a line in signal for even a usb connection for external...

Hi guys, haven't been keeping up with the news lately but can anyone tell me if the FiiO X5 supports Rockbox yet?   If not, are they working on adding it?

Can this be used when running foobar in bit perfect mode, using say, the WASAPI plugin? Ditto for the Graphic Equalizer?

Does the Realtek ALC887 support Bit Perfect? If so, how does the sound compare to running bit perfect from a Sound Blaster card?

Hi guys. So just to confirm, you can achieve 100% bit perfect audio from most of the current RealTek on board chips? If so, how would you compare the sound quality to say, a Sound Blaster card, if both are running bit perfect?

Quote: ?   What is the Matrix Mini-i?  

Quote: Yeah but I bought mine something like 4 years ago LOL.

I see, thanks :)

I really wish Sony would remake this player and sell it again for its 20th anniversary!

Im gonna be listening to these again soon, just to see if there's any perceivable difference between the old masters and the new in terms of the mixing itself.

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